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 Swoope, Virginia (AFP) Oct 16, 2009 
A diehard activist for some, a pioneer for others, Joel Salatin is fighting against America's genetically-modified foods and for local subsistence farming. Leading his crusade from the heart of the Shenandoah Valley in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, this anti-globalization messenger who dubs himself a "Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer" has become ... read more
Pendjari, Benin (AFP) Oct 18, 2009It has not rained much recently in the northern regions of Benin in west Africa, the soil is hard and cracking. But from it sprout small and precious white flowers of organic cotton. "At the beginning, we did not think we could cultivate without fertiliser," said Michel Boundia, head of a cotton farmers association in the village of Batia, 800 kilometres (500 miles) north of the commercial ... more
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Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Mexico City (AFP) Oct 15, 2009Mexico on Thursday approved its first permits for genetically-modified test crops of corn, in a controversial move to boost the staple food in the cradle of maize production. The agriculture and environment ministries announced the first two permits in a joint statement, but did not name the companies involved or specify where the fields were. They said that 35 permit requests had been made. ... more 
Abu Ghraib, Iraq (AFP) Oct 18, 2009Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion. "Honey production has fallen by almost half since the 1980s," when output of the prized sweet reached a peak of 80 tonnes a year, said sector specialist Kamila Mohammed, a lecturer at the faculty of Agriculture in Ba ... more  
Amsterdam (AFP) Oct 18, 2009About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg -- a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding. "There is a lot of water in the Netherlands, it is used for navigation and recreation. We want to see if it can also be inhabited," Ton van Namen, director of real estate company Monteflore, told ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Oct 15, 2009The EU Commission stressed Thursday that health and environmental factors were foremost in approving genetically modified foodstuffs, while protesting farmers and environmentalists called for an outright ban. "GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are one of the most sensitive dossiers on my desk," EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou said during a meeting with farmers organised by Gre ... more 
Ardingly, England (AFP) Oct 15, 2009Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens said Thursday they have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a project to protect all endangered plant species. Seeds from a wild, pink banana are the latest addition to the collection at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, designed to guard against dwindling diversity. The banana from China, musa itinerans, is an impo ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 14, 2009India's latest remote sensing satellite Oceansat-2 has begun beaming "good quality" images of the earth and relaying data on sea surface wind speed and direction, the space agency said on Monday. The 960 kg spacecraft was launched on board the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV-C14) from spaceport Sriharikota, about 90 km north-east of Chennai on September 23, with three scientific ... more |
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